Would you ever pay for Hulu? If it is significantly cheaper than cable would it be worth it?
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But I WOULD pay for On-Demand service (instead of programming) for all my television watching needs if the shows were high quality and piped directly to my TV.
Not the bottom-of-the-barrel On Demand offerings like Comcast has, but real "I pick what I want to watch and when" from any Digital Ready TV in my house.
I'd even watch an interactive "Commercial Channel" if I could earn points towards commercial free time.
That's my solution by the way to digital advertising if anyone is interested. Give me a channel of Just Commercials to watch. I rate them, vote for them, critique them, filter my ads myself (I don't want to see Steak and Fries commercial if I'm a vegetarian). And my reward is credit towards commercial free programming.
Maybe someone at Mahalo will approach advertisers with such a propsition but instead of credit toward free programming maybe we'd get paid to watch and comment on commercials! Market research is worth money you know.
Someone get on that, will ya? ;)
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Hulu's mass appeal comes from the fact that it is both completely free and completely legal. If you take the free factor out of the equation, it loses its charm. Although, I think offering something like a Hulu Pro that would let users watch shows commercial free and have access to additional content would be interesting.
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I would.
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hulu.com
isohunt.com
utorrent.com
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I mean, take a look at the iTunes Store. If people didn't like to pay, how come they still have TV Shows up there? Likewise with the Playstation Store and XBox Live.
For Hulu to work, it needs to remain free. Always.
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If they made it commercial free and had a huge selection of shows that people wanted to see, that they could not see for free elsewhere, then I could see a possibility of charging for the service.
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Going to a pay model will kill hulu. If I have to pay for movies, I don't want to watch commercials..
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@silverhammer I could not agree more. I want to pay for only the shows I watch, even if its down to a per show basis. This combined with a commercial channel to pro-rate my over all bill, the more commercials I watch and interact with the more credit towords programming I get.
Simplistic genious, just not seen as profitable by the major cable companies or programming providers.
I not only hope this is the way of the future with TV I believe it will be.
I would love my TV a la carte.